Judges 16:10
And Delilah said unto Samson, Behold, thou hast mocked me, and told me lies: now tell me, I pray thee, wherewith thou mightest be bound.
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Lies
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1 Timothy 4:2
Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
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כָּזָב
kâzâb · kaw-zawb'
20 times translated as this KJV form30 total Strong's occurrences
falsehood; literally (untruth) or figuratively (idol)
Strong's KJV usage: deceitful, false, leasing, liar, lie, lying.
Strong's first: Judges 16:10Strong's last: Zephaniah 3:13
Open full H3577 profile →שֶׁקֶר
sheqer · sheh'-ker
18 times translated as this KJV form111 total Strong's occurrences
an untruth; by implication, a sham (often adverbial)
Strong's KJV usage: without a cause, deceit(-ful), false(-hood, -ly), feignedly, liar, lie, lying, vain (thing), wrongfully.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Job 13:4Strong's last: Zechariah 13:3
Open full H8267 profile →כַּחַשׁ
kachash · kakh'-ash
4 times translated as this KJV form6 total Strong's occurrences
literally a failure of flesh, i.e. emaciation; figuratively, hypocrisy
Strong's KJV usage: leanness, lies, lying.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Hosea 7:3Strong's last: Nahum 3:1
Open full H3585 profile →בַּד
bad · bad
3 times translated as this KJV form6 total Strong's occurrences
a brag or lie; also a liar
Strong's KJV usage: liar, lie.
Strong's first: Job 11:3Strong's last: Jeremiah 48:30
Open full H907 profile →דָּבָר
dâbâr · daw-baw'
2 times translated as this KJV form1,425 total Strong's occurrences
a word; by implication, a matter (as spoken of) or thing; adverbially, a cause
Strong's KJV usage: act, advice, affair, answer, × any such (thing), because of, book, business, care, case, cause, certain rate, chronicles, commandment, × commune(-ication), concern(-ing), confer, counsel, dearth, decree, deed, × disease, due, duty, effect, eloquent, errand, (evil favoured-) ness, glory, harm, hurt, iniquity, judgment, language, lying, manner, matter, message, (no) thing, oracle, × ought, × parts, pertaining, please, portion, power, promise, provision, purpose, question, rate, reason, report, request, × (as hast) said, sake, saying, sentence, sign, so, some (uncleanness), somewhat to say, song, speech, × spoken, talk, task, that, × there done, thing (concerning), thought, thus, tidings, what(-soever), wherewith, which, word, work.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Proverbs 29:12Strong's last: Proverbs 30:8
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pseudológos · psyoo-dol-og'-os
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
mendacious, i.e. promulgating erroneous Christian doctrine
Strong's KJV usage: :--speaking lies.
Strong's first: 1 Timothy 4:2Strong's last: 1 Timothy 4:2
Open full G5573 profile →כָּזַב
kâzab · kaw-zab'
1 times translated as this KJV form16 total Strong's occurrences
to lie (i.e. deceive), literally or figuratively
Strong's KJV usage: fail, (be found a, make a) liar, lie, lying, be in vain.
Strong's first: Proverbs 14:5Strong's last: Proverbs 14:5
Open full H3576 profile →שָׁוְא
shâvᵉʼ · shawv
1 times translated as this KJV form53 total Strong's occurrences
evil (as destructive), literally (ruin) or morally (especially guile); figuratively idolatry (as false, subjective), uselessness (as deceptive, objective; also adverbially, in vain)
Strong's KJV usage: false(-ly), lie, lying, vain, vanity.
Strong's first: Isaiah 59:4Strong's last: Isaiah 59:4
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tᵉʼun · teh-oon'
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
naughtiness, i.e. toil
Strong's KJV usage: lie.
Strong's first: Ezekiel 24:12Strong's last: Ezekiel 24:12
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H8267
And it shall come to pass, that when any shall yet prophesy, then his father and his mother that begat him shall say unto him, Thou shalt not live; for thou speakest lies in the name of the LORD: and his father and his mother that begat him shall thrust him through when he prophesieth.
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lie
LIE, water impregnated with alkaline salt, is written lye, to distinguish it from lie a falsehood.
LIE, noun
1. A criminal falsehood; a falsehood uttered for the purpose of deception; an intentional violation of truth. Fiction, or a false statement or representation, not intended to deceive, mislead or injure, as in fables, parables and the like, is not a lie
It is willful deceit that makes a lie A man may act a lie as by pointing his finger in a wrong direction, when a traveler inquires of him his road.
2. A fiction; in a ludicrous sense.
3. False doctrine. 1 John 2:1.
4. An idolatrous picture of God, or a false god. Romans 1:25.
5. That which deceives and disappoints confidence.
Micah 1:14.
To give the lie to charge with falsehood. A man's actions may give the lie to his words.
LIE, verb intransitive
1. To utter falsehood with an intention to deceive, or with an immoral design.
Thou hast not lied to men, but to God. Acts 5:3.
2. To exhibit a false representation; to say or do that which deceives another, when he has a right to know the truth, or when morality requires a just representation.
LIE, verb intransitive preterit tense lay; participle passive lain, [lien, obsolete ] [The Gr. word usually signifies to speak, which is to utter or throw out sounds. Hence to lie down is to throw one's self down, and probably lie and lay are of one family, as are jacio and jacceo, in Latin.]
1. To be in a horizontal position, or nearly so, and to rest on any thing lengthwise, and not on the end. Thus a person lies on a bed, and a fallen tree on the ground. A cask stands on its end, but lies on its side.
2. To rest in an inclining posture; to lean; as, to lie on or against a column.
3. To rest; to press on.
4. To be reposited in the grave.
All the kings of the earth, even all of them, lie in glory.
Isaiah 14:18.
5. To rest on a bed or couch; to be prostrate; as, to lie sick.
My little daughter lieth at the point of death. Mark 5:1.
6. To be situated. New Haven lies in the forty second degree of north latitude. Ireland lies west of England.
Envy lies between beings equal in nature, though unequal in circumstances.
7. To be; to rest; to abide; to remain; often followed by some word denoting a particular condition; as, to lie waste; to lie fallow; to lie open; to lie hid; to lie pining or grieving; to lie under one's displeasure; to lie at the mercy of a creditor, or at the mercy of the waves.
8. To consist.
He that thinks that diversion may not lie in hard labor, forgets the early rising of the huntsman.
9. To be sustainable in law; to be capable of being maintained. An action lies against the tenant for waste.
An appeal lies in this case.
To lie at, to tease or importune. [Little used.]
To lie at the heart, to be fixed as an object of affection or anxious desire.
1. To lie by, to be reposited, or remaining with. He has the manuscript lying by him.
2. To rest; to intermit labor. We lay by during the heat of the day.
To lie in the way, to be an obstacle or impediment. Remove the objections that lie in the way of an amicable adjustment.
To lie hard or heavy, to press; to oppress; to burden.
To lie on hand, to be or remain in possession; to remain unsold or undisposed of.
Great quantities of wine lie on hand, or have lain long on hand.
To lie on the hands, to remain unoccupied or unemployed; to be tedious. Men are sometimes at a loss to know how to employ the time that lies on their hands.
To lie on the head, to be imputed.
What he gets more of her than sharp words, let it lie on my head.
To lie in wait, to wait for in concealment; to lie in ambush; to watch for an opportunity to attack or seize.
To lie in one, to be in the power of; to belong to.
As much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.
Rom 41.
To lie down, to lay the body on the ground or other level place; also, to go to rest.
To lie in, to be in childbed; to bring forth young.
To lie under, to be subject to; to suffer; to be oppressed by.
To lie on or upon, to be a matter of obligation or duty. It lies on the plaintiff to maintain his action.
1. To lie with, to lodge or sleep with; also, to have carnal knowledge of.
2. To belong to. It lies with you to make amends.
To lie over, to remain unpaid, after the time when payment is due; as a note in bank.
To lie to, to be stationary, as a ship.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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